Well, the event went off without a hitch last night, but of course we encountered the usual troupe of liberal fanatics. In one of their finest displays of the token "tolerance," a group of protestors showed up not only to protest prior to the speech, but also during. I guess I should be thanking them for giving us yet another opportunity with which to ridicule their predictable response to the facts, especially when these facts contradict their movement.
In any case, the night was fun to say the least. Posted are the complete (unedited, so excuse the poor quality) audio of the speech, and several pictures of the event. ENJOY!
Audio:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jwick/Audio/Schlafly%20050428.wav
Pictures:
Protesters gather...
Oh what nice signs ::sarcasm::
Phyllis speaks her mind...
She draws quite a crowd...
The CRs gather for a quick pic...
Senator Grothman and Mrs. Schlafly
Stay tuned, I will try to make a new post before the weekend is over...
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Phyllis Schlafly Speech
Tomorrow, Phyllis Schlafly will be giving a speech on illegal immigration and the crisis in the judiciary. The event will take place in 180 Science Hall at 7:30 PM with a book-signing to follow.
I will be recording the event and as soon as I get back the audio will be loaded onto my website. I will post a link and a summary of the event thereafter. Any comments you have on the speech can be left here or emailed to jwick@wisc.edu ...
Stay tuned, once I think of a new topic I will make another post...
I will be recording the event and as soon as I get back the audio will be loaded onto my website. I will post a link and a summary of the event thereafter. Any comments you have on the speech can be left here or emailed to jwick@wisc.edu ...
Stay tuned, once I think of a new topic I will make another post...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Holes in the ozone? Try holes in the borders!
One of the most popular topics of debate on Capitol Hill is that of illegal immigration. Whether it's debating the threat posed by border-hoppers or the necessity of regulating the rights of those already here makes no difference, many on the right have firmly entrenched themselves in their position opposite the left.
Apart from the leniancy President Bush seems to be showing towards illegals, the consensus from conservatives is that we need to take on a massive overhaul of border security and strangle the problem at its source. Now I'm not implying Pres. Bush is on the left with this issue, however he is taking quite a lax approach to the problem. The objection many conservatives have with his policy lately regarding immigration is that while he acknowledges the problem, his reactions are bordering on negligent. The only positive facet of his approach is that he understands the extent of the problem, and that it must be dealt with. The majority of liberals on the other hand continue to fight at the state and local level for increased rights regarding aliens. Recently here in Wisconsin, Rep. Pedro Colon (D-Milwaukee) has called for legislation that would grant in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants. In an era of heightened security risks on every imaginable front, this is not the approach we should be taking.
As previously mentioned, the conservative consensus is that tight borders need to be enforced at all costs, and the rights of illegals need to be taken to a minimum as to avoid the problem encountered on 9/11. In the aftermath of that fateful day, it was discovered that many of the conspirators and players were illegals that had overstayed their visas. Meanwhile they were allowed to procure multiple driver's licenses for each of them which consequently allowed them to move freely around the country and even to acquire flight training without so much as an inkling of suspicion. One would tend to assume that as a result of this gross negligence toward the rewarding of driver's licenses to illegals, all government channels would try their damndest to cut off this avenue and make it harder for terrorist networks to function on American soil. Nevertheless we continue to this day to witness the undying attempts of conservative lawmakers to fix the problem of immigration running into incredible resistance. The liberals in Congress and on state legislatures refuse to budge and even find ways to give more rights to illegals.
It is time once and for all that lawmakers at every level threw down the gauntlet. The time has long since passed for stricter management of the borders, and now we must minimize the damage before it gets any worse. Every hole in the borders must be plugged, and every illegal already on American soil must be tracked down and documented. We can no longer afford to sit idly by while hundreds of thousands of aliens live amongst us unmonitored. I am proud of Pres. Bush for responding to the events of 9/11 so well as to stave off attack thus far, but at the pace we are fixing the remaining problems it is only a matter of time before one of these problems blows up into a catastrophe.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
Apart from the leniancy President Bush seems to be showing towards illegals, the consensus from conservatives is that we need to take on a massive overhaul of border security and strangle the problem at its source. Now I'm not implying Pres. Bush is on the left with this issue, however he is taking quite a lax approach to the problem. The objection many conservatives have with his policy lately regarding immigration is that while he acknowledges the problem, his reactions are bordering on negligent. The only positive facet of his approach is that he understands the extent of the problem, and that it must be dealt with. The majority of liberals on the other hand continue to fight at the state and local level for increased rights regarding aliens. Recently here in Wisconsin, Rep. Pedro Colon (D-Milwaukee) has called for legislation that would grant in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants. In an era of heightened security risks on every imaginable front, this is not the approach we should be taking.
As previously mentioned, the conservative consensus is that tight borders need to be enforced at all costs, and the rights of illegals need to be taken to a minimum as to avoid the problem encountered on 9/11. In the aftermath of that fateful day, it was discovered that many of the conspirators and players were illegals that had overstayed their visas. Meanwhile they were allowed to procure multiple driver's licenses for each of them which consequently allowed them to move freely around the country and even to acquire flight training without so much as an inkling of suspicion. One would tend to assume that as a result of this gross negligence toward the rewarding of driver's licenses to illegals, all government channels would try their damndest to cut off this avenue and make it harder for terrorist networks to function on American soil. Nevertheless we continue to this day to witness the undying attempts of conservative lawmakers to fix the problem of immigration running into incredible resistance. The liberals in Congress and on state legislatures refuse to budge and even find ways to give more rights to illegals.
It is time once and for all that lawmakers at every level threw down the gauntlet. The time has long since passed for stricter management of the borders, and now we must minimize the damage before it gets any worse. Every hole in the borders must be plugged, and every illegal already on American soil must be tracked down and documented. We can no longer afford to sit idly by while hundreds of thousands of aliens live amongst us unmonitored. I am proud of Pres. Bush for responding to the events of 9/11 so well as to stave off attack thus far, but at the pace we are fixing the remaining problems it is only a matter of time before one of these problems blows up into a catastrophe.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
Friday, April 15, 2005
Student "news"papers
One thing is running rampant here in Madison these days: student newspapers littered with left-leaning editorials and spins on every conservative attempt to balance the scales. The Daily Cardinal is the oldest newspaper on campus, being in circulation since 1892. It has been decades since the objectivity of this newspaper was tossed aside in favor of heavy liberal rhetoric. In response to the compromising of the Cardinal, William F Buckley Jr. arrived in Madison, founding and growing the Badger Herald into one of the most respected college newspapers in the United States. This was some forty years ago now, and somewhere along the lines the left managed to infiltrate the ranks of editorial staff. The corruption of the Herald has not nearly reached the ridiculousness of the Cardinal, but it is evident in the reporting today that the Herald has unfortunately embarked on "the journey of the Cardinal."
I have one instance to share of the complete lack of objectivity in the ranks of the Herald reporting staff. Yesterday, the students of Madison organized two completely separate rallies on campus. One was put together by the liberals, in an attempt to arouse support for their mission of banning military recruiters from the campus. The other, one in which I participated, was organized by a small group of College Republicans in an attempt to not only counter the left's position, but in order to show our support for the recruiters and for the troops on the front lines in Iraq. From what I saw capturing images of the anti-military rally, it seemed that the two groups had garnered equally sized crowds. And later on, when the two groups clashed in front of the army recruiting station, the respective chants seemed to perfectly offset each other. However, the crowd supporting the troops and defending the recruiters won the fight that resulted in the shamed leftist throng abandoning the area and returning to their original spot on Bascom Hill. We achieved this result not by confronting the crazed liberals, we simply stood our ground and ignored their attempts to degrade us and to heartlessly steal our flags.
Now what would you expect to hear in the student newspapers about these two rallies? My initial expectations for the Cardinal were the normal disregard for the conservatives' affect and the praising of the liberals' for "taking action and voicing their concerns." I then expected the Herald, traditionally much less slanted than the Cardinal, to portray the respective rallies as having an equal affect. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded to find out that the Herald's coverage consisted of an article FOCUSING on the anti-military rally. After reading the entire article, there was only one fleeting mention of our support the troops rally in the form of an indirect quote by a member of the other rally. To my surprise, the Cardinal managed to at least fit a quote by the College Republican chair, Nicole Marklein, in their article. However their slant was shown in the picture accompanying the article, portraying a member of our rally as "shoving" a member of the other rally when the two crowds came together.
Two things stand out in my mind when I look back on the coverage of yesterday's events. The first is the total disregard for the efforts of my fellow conservatives to voice their support for our troops. The second is the ridiculous abundance of coverage for the anti-military rally. Not once in any of this coverage does anyone mention the Solomon Amendments. The importance of these laws make it absolutely critical to acknowledge them in response to the rally. These laws state that public universities who ban military recruiters from their campus will be subject to the loss of all federal funding for the school. Without this funding, tuition for every student would rise $20,000! I think it's less of a problem to deal with military recruiters than to deal with a 400% increase for in-state tuition. Somehow none of the student newspaper coverage manages to mention this. Somehow the school administrators forget about this and adhere to the demands of the liberal crowd by granting them a forum at which they can voice their concerns to the Chancellor. Somehow the conservatives continued attempts to be heard on this campus still fall on deaf ears. This needs to stop, and hopefully the beginning of the end will accompany the rise of the Mendota Beacon, the newest student newspaper dedicated to the spread of conservative news and opinions.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
I have one instance to share of the complete lack of objectivity in the ranks of the Herald reporting staff. Yesterday, the students of Madison organized two completely separate rallies on campus. One was put together by the liberals, in an attempt to arouse support for their mission of banning military recruiters from the campus. The other, one in which I participated, was organized by a small group of College Republicans in an attempt to not only counter the left's position, but in order to show our support for the recruiters and for the troops on the front lines in Iraq. From what I saw capturing images of the anti-military rally, it seemed that the two groups had garnered equally sized crowds. And later on, when the two groups clashed in front of the army recruiting station, the respective chants seemed to perfectly offset each other. However, the crowd supporting the troops and defending the recruiters won the fight that resulted in the shamed leftist throng abandoning the area and returning to their original spot on Bascom Hill. We achieved this result not by confronting the crazed liberals, we simply stood our ground and ignored their attempts to degrade us and to heartlessly steal our flags.
Now what would you expect to hear in the student newspapers about these two rallies? My initial expectations for the Cardinal were the normal disregard for the conservatives' affect and the praising of the liberals' for "taking action and voicing their concerns." I then expected the Herald, traditionally much less slanted than the Cardinal, to portray the respective rallies as having an equal affect. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded to find out that the Herald's coverage consisted of an article FOCUSING on the anti-military rally. After reading the entire article, there was only one fleeting mention of our support the troops rally in the form of an indirect quote by a member of the other rally. To my surprise, the Cardinal managed to at least fit a quote by the College Republican chair, Nicole Marklein, in their article. However their slant was shown in the picture accompanying the article, portraying a member of our rally as "shoving" a member of the other rally when the two crowds came together.
Two things stand out in my mind when I look back on the coverage of yesterday's events. The first is the total disregard for the efforts of my fellow conservatives to voice their support for our troops. The second is the ridiculous abundance of coverage for the anti-military rally. Not once in any of this coverage does anyone mention the Solomon Amendments. The importance of these laws make it absolutely critical to acknowledge them in response to the rally. These laws state that public universities who ban military recruiters from their campus will be subject to the loss of all federal funding for the school. Without this funding, tuition for every student would rise $20,000! I think it's less of a problem to deal with military recruiters than to deal with a 400% increase for in-state tuition. Somehow none of the student newspaper coverage manages to mention this. Somehow the school administrators forget about this and adhere to the demands of the liberal crowd by granting them a forum at which they can voice their concerns to the Chancellor. Somehow the conservatives continued attempts to be heard on this campus still fall on deaf ears. This needs to stop, and hopefully the beginning of the end will accompany the rise of the Mendota Beacon, the newest student newspaper dedicated to the spread of conservative news and opinions.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
Introduction
As it stands, I find myself with quite a bit to discuss, seeing as I am a part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy in the liberal Utopia that is Madison, Wisconsin. This doesn't phase me in the least, I knew this was going to be the environment as I prepared to move out of my conservative haven of Ozaukee County in SE Wisconsin. After a semester and a half I have come to a stark realization; there are liberals with which you can sit down and have a nice conversation, and then there is an entirely different breed that clings to every antithesis of the conservative ideology. What I mean here is that for every view I share with them, somehow they can find a way to refute it with some hair-brained response, sensical or not. As much as I would prefer to surround myself with a smattering of conservatives and the former brand of liberal, I have found it necessary to enhance my beliefs by subjecting myself to the lunacy that comes from the latter brand. Nonsense though it may be, their arguments give me the motivation to prove that I am right. The purpose of this blog, starting with my next post, will be to share with you my views. Hopefully some of my posts will be of intellectual value to some of you, but if for nothing else, I hope they will capture your attention for even a moment. I will leave you with a quote from ol' Dutch himself, Ronald Reagan.
“It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.”
This embodies one of my most heartfelt beliefs, the federal government was devised by the Framers not to impede on our daily lives, but to follow in the shadows, providing constructive criticism along the way.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
“It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.”
This embodies one of my most heartfelt beliefs, the federal government was devised by the Framers not to impede on our daily lives, but to follow in the shadows, providing constructive criticism along the way.
Stay posted, further updates are forthcoming...
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